i am a descendent of grandparents and parents who are immigrants. ofcourse now they are all U.S citizens because they did their citizenships a few years after they got here, but they once were immigrants to this land. that is why i care alot about immigration laws, because if my parents wouldn't have migrated from Dominican Republic to New York, they would have never met and i would not exist.
On the site. click here, Obama's view on immigration is positive. he is going to try and make the transition from being illegal to legal in the United states easier.
Luckily by what people are writing so is Romney. here is a website, click here, that has quotes of what romney has said about immigration.
and on this website, click here, Romney talks about how he will NOT abolish the laws Obama has put towards illegal parents with citizen children. Which is that they could get a 2 year visa to work and live here legally if they meet certain criteria.
this makes me happy to know that both candidates are on the same page on this.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
service of what (extended comment)
i will be doing my extended comment blog on Lucy's blog.
Lucy says that her first quote,
Quote #1: "Educators and legislators alike maintain that service learning can improve the community and invigorate the classroom, providing rich educational experiences for students at all levels of schooling."
is something she agrees with because she has gotten alot out of doing service learning. i also have to agree because doing my service learning has helped understand that not everyone is at the same level. it will take some students more practice to learn than others, some students learn one way and others feel more comfortable learning in another way. it helps you see all kinds of diversities.
Lucy says that her second quote,
Quote #2: "For Thanksgiving this year my stepmother helped serve the seniors their Thanksgiving dinner. This was a very rewarding experience helping others in need. It seemed that the dinner was something special to them; it was a chance for them to get together with their peers."
is something she likes because its someone taking their service learning in a positive way. this quote actually reminds me of a time that i did volunteering for a christmas party at wiggins village. i basically helped raise money to provide gifts and food for the children of the village who were of low income families. in doing so i had so much fun with the kids and it opened my eyes more to many different families, situations and diversity.
Lucy says that her third quote,
Quote #3: "After they returned, the students' perspectives on these elementary school children had changed. They were 'surprised at the children's responsiveness and their attentiveness,' they found the children to be 'extremely polite and surprisingly friendly,' and they discovered that they 'listened well and had excellent behavior."
is something that caught her eye because she experienced this as well. i cant count the number of people that just assume that little kids are out of control and are hard to handle. where i think, even though that may be the case with some students, it is mostly the case with secondary students, because thats when they're finding themselves and becoming rebellious.
Click here for a page that i found why service learning is important
Lucy says that her first quote,
Quote #1: "Educators and legislators alike maintain that service learning can improve the community and invigorate the classroom, providing rich educational experiences for students at all levels of schooling."
is something she agrees with because she has gotten alot out of doing service learning. i also have to agree because doing my service learning has helped understand that not everyone is at the same level. it will take some students more practice to learn than others, some students learn one way and others feel more comfortable learning in another way. it helps you see all kinds of diversities.
Lucy says that her second quote,
Quote #2: "For Thanksgiving this year my stepmother helped serve the seniors their Thanksgiving dinner. This was a very rewarding experience helping others in need. It seemed that the dinner was something special to them; it was a chance for them to get together with their peers."
is something she likes because its someone taking their service learning in a positive way. this quote actually reminds me of a time that i did volunteering for a christmas party at wiggins village. i basically helped raise money to provide gifts and food for the children of the village who were of low income families. in doing so i had so much fun with the kids and it opened my eyes more to many different families, situations and diversity.
Lucy says that her third quote,
Quote #3: "After they returned, the students' perspectives on these elementary school children had changed. They were 'surprised at the children's responsiveness and their attentiveness,' they found the children to be 'extremely polite and surprisingly friendly,' and they discovered that they 'listened well and had excellent behavior."
is something that caught her eye because she experienced this as well. i cant count the number of people that just assume that little kids are out of control and are hard to handle. where i think, even though that may be the case with some students, it is mostly the case with secondary students, because thats when they're finding themselves and becoming rebellious.
Click here for a page that i found why service learning is important
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Cinderella ate my daughter (argument)
Orenstein argues that the princesses from disney channel influence girls in a poisonous way, no matter their economic status.
on page 16-17, she says that princesses make girls to only think about their beauty, and that when they get older to be high school or college students, it affects their self-esteem and makes them less capable of insisting that their sex partners use condoms.
she even sayds that it is not only girls who go through poverty that experience, but all girls.
click here for a pg similar to this.
on page 16-17, she says that princesses make girls to only think about their beauty, and that when they get older to be high school or college students, it affects their self-esteem and makes them less capable of insisting that their sex partners use condoms.
she even sayds that it is not only girls who go through poverty that experience, but all girls.
click here for a pg similar to this.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Myths that Bind Us (quotes)
this is not the first time i encounter this project, so i was pretty much aware of what was going in the text, and how cartons affect children.
before anything there is this website i found that also talks about (click on->) how cartons affect children, check it out.
"according to the novels I readmy thick ankles doomed me to be cast as rhe peasant woman reaping hay while the heroine swept by with her handsome heroic man in hot pursuit."
to me this is how cartoons portray that skinny girls are the only beautiful girls. i dont remember seeing a cartoon with a thick princess. in fact i do remember watching a disney movie where a little girl was cursed when she was little to be ugly until a man loves her for who she is. during the "ugly" curse, she was thick, with a big nose and when the curse was lifted she was "beautiful", she was skinny with a small nose. so that tells kids, being thick or having a big nose is something to be ashamed about
"The "secret education," as Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman dubs it, delivered by children's books and movies, instructs young people to accept the world as it is portrayed in these social blueprints"
before anything there is this website i found that also talks about (click on->) how cartons affect children, check it out.
to me this is how cartoons portray that skinny girls are the only beautiful girls. i dont remember seeing a cartoon with a thick princess. in fact i do remember watching a disney movie where a little girl was cursed when she was little to be ugly until a man loves her for who she is. during the "ugly" curse, she was thick, with a big nose and when the curse was lifted she was "beautiful", she was skinny with a small nose. so that tells kids, being thick or having a big nose is something to be ashamed about
"Children's cartoons, movies, and literature are perhaps the most Influentia] genre "read." Young people, unprotected by any intellectual armor, hear or watch these stories again and again. often from the warmth of their mother's or father's lap"
kids watch this cartoons without knowing realisticly about the real world. they have no foundational education, they have no logic or anything. so when they watch these cartoons and receive these messages, that becomes their blueprint to any future education or knowledge on these topics expressed in the cartoons.
to me this is saying that cartoons teach kids what is acceptable for males to do and females to do. females must be girly and boys have to be tough and pretty violent. boys cant show weakness and girls are not suppose to be tough.
here is a video also supporting that arguement
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